A Texan conservative Anglican -- yes, a square peg -- ponders both churchly and worldly things and enjoys his new church.

Monday, February 23, 2015

Obama the Historian

When
Obama finally leaves the White House, I’m sure he could get a plum tenure
somewhere, at Harvard perhaps, as an authority on the history of Islam and of
America’s founding . . . or perhaps not.

“Here in America,” Obama
stated, “Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its
founding.”

Nice try, Mr.
President. But, as Ben Shapiro, writing for Breitbart, notes, the first
Muslims did not immigrate to the United States until well after
the Civil War; and
the first mosque in the United States was not built
until 1915, by
most reports. Shapiro goes on to say:

“Islam had zero impact on
the founders or their philosophy – less than zero, given that the founders
despised the religion, or what they knew of it.”

Which
is understandable given the founders, particularly Thomas Jefferson, had to
deal with the Muslim Barbary pirates.But Obama botched that bit of history as well.Read here to get more color on that.

So
perhaps Obama ought to stick to community organizing after his presidency. . .
. Oh heck, who am I kidding?Higher education in the U. S. is so devolved and corrupted, any number
of universities would love to have Obama use them to push his falsehoods.Revisionist liars historians
have to be combated and debunked in every generation thanks to corrupted academia.

By the way, is there any subject about which Obama will not tell falsehoods?